:Police seeking public help in catching a suspect

TAWAU: District police is seeking the co-operation from members of the public in searching for a 27 year old suspect who apparently slashed his wife after a heated argument last night.

District Police Chief ACP Jaafar Mohd. Yussof said that the suspect, Shahrizan Abdul Raja was found missing after he slashed his wife who is an enforcement officer for the district’s Anti Corruption Agency (ACA) yesterday night in the suspect’s car at North road.

The victim aged 25 after was slashed on the neck managed to jump from the vehicle while her husband who work as a part time as a plan designer fled the scene. The victim later hailed a passing vehicle driven by a General Operation Force (GOF) personnel around 8.15pm where she was sent to the district’s hospital and later to lodge the report.

Jaafar said that police managed to trace the vehicle at mile 3 Apas with a flat tire but the suspect could not be traced. He added that they also found a lady’s panty inside the vehicle and believed that the husband might have tried to have sex with her wife. Jaafar also said that the victim is now in a stable condition.

He also said that the couple had stayed apart pending divorce procedure for the past three months.

`We believed that the suspect is mentally unstable and there is an urgency to detain him as soon as possible’, Jaafar said. He urges the public with information on the suspect to go to the nearest police station or contact officer-in-charge of the case Inspector Azmani Abdullah at 017-687-3015.

PICTURE SHOWING THE SUSPECT.